Sigmetack7/27/2026 · https://research.mutlak.se/en/research/measuring-behavioral-decision-making-feedback-loop
methodological paper · 2025
Measuring the Process of Behavioral Decision-Making: A Preliminary Study on Visualizing and Quantitizing the Feedback Loop
Joke H. van Velzen
In the social and behavioral sciences, both quantitative and qualitative researchers have raised concerns about measuring phenomena as they exist in the actual world because of the issue of the replicability of findings and results or the so-called crisis in psychology. Their concerns apply specifically to person-specific situational flexibility or the behavioral flexibility that an individual can display across situations. The purpose of this study was to explore the measurement of the person-specific process of behavioral decision-making in the situation of complex learning and problem solving by employing mixed method research integrated closed- and open-ended questions. Two studies were conducted, one involving the re-analysis of previously collected data, and the other involving a case study to bring to the fore the process of behavioral decision-making. The first study showed the format for suitable integrated open-ended questions. The case study showed how to capture the behavioral decision-making process via timescales and feedback loops. It was concluded that flexibility in the process of behavioral decision-making as noticed by the participant could be visualized and quantitized to enable data-analysis.
RRREaT - Data-Analytical Techniques · Vol. 1 · No. 02
Overview
This preliminary study explores how to measure person-specific behavioral decision-making during complex learning and problem solving. It uses integrated closed- and open-ended questions in a re-analysis of earlier data and in a case study. The findings show how timescales and feedback loops can make flexibility in decision-making visible and how qualitative responses can be quantitized for analysis.
Topics covered
Integrated mixed-method questions for capturing both structured responses and participant explanations.
The use of timescales and feedback loops to trace a person's decision-making process.
Ways to visualize and quantitize noticed flexibility while retaining person-specific situational information.
Original publication
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